Meaning of farm out | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To subcontract (a task, responsibility, etc.) to another; to outsource.
   idiomatic, transitive
2. To clear or clean out; empty out.
   Northern-England

Examples

“Near-synonym: sub out”

“These companies are simply paper companies . . . they farm out the contracts to the real builders.”

“The summer of 1976 founnd Jacqui at the Pied Piper in Provincetown doing disco seven nights a week. Come⟳ fall⟳, Jacqui farmed out her talents to four separate⟳ gay bars — three in Boston and one in Tyngsboro, Mass.”

“The U.S. military had hoped to farm out the Bagram detainees to prisons run⟳ by Afghanistan and other nations.”

“Farm out the stable and pigsty.”

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